The past few months I have been working on the SEO of my blog and found some amazing things doing it. I have learnt so much about how Google and others work and what they look for. One thing this has shown me is how many mistakes I have made in the past with tagging and permalinks. I never even knew permalinks could make such a big difference!

Last night I spent time going through my categories and sorting them out so I never had so many, I also sorted my permalink problems out. Wordpress is amazing for this and makes it such a interesting thing to do.

I know I have much more to learn! But I do think that doing it the hard way is the best way and much better then reading from a book, as now I remember everything much better.

Since doing all these things I have found my hits have gone up over 200% over the past month or two. And i would say most of it just comes from simple things like permalinks and tags and maybe a bit from using RSS feeds with feedburner.

Any help anyone needs please email or comment and I shall gladly help